#I bought that watermelon to submit SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE it was the last day of summer

[victorluvsalice]

-->And then, once everyone was good, and Alice was back in her human form, it was off to the Fair! I sent Alice and Smiler to the bar to get some drinks (as per their wants) while Victor went to submit his entries. He submitted the chocolate pie okay – but when he tried to submit his watermelon, a MUSHROOM appeared on the little table. A small one (well, not SMALL small, but the smallest size of oversized). I was initially deeply confused and thought someone had stolen his spot, but eventually worked out that, despite me PICKING the watermelon, the game must have just had him automatically place the first thing on the list of acceptable produce – a small oversized mushroom – there instead. Well THAT’S irritating! Suddenly I remember why I don’t usually come to these things. >(

Anyway – with Victor having submitted his entries (even if one of them was not the entry I wanted), I then TRIED to have him join Alice and Smiler at the bar (where they were chatting with, and going by Alice's face there, judging a couple of other comers) – only for someone to steal his intended seat and cancel out the interaction. So he went over to a picnic table by the festival and had a specter sip all alone. Which was both sad and funny – especially when he finished the drink and ended up with two levels of VETERINARY skill, of all things. Well, uh, I guess that makes taking care of the cats and the dog easier? XD With that done, I had him look at the competing entry in the pie competition (someone’s fish pie, which he thought looked very nice), then looked around for something else for him to do –

-->And spotted the grocery stall and the garden stall. Each of which said that they were not only selling things, but buying them – at a 10% mark-up.

Cue Victor visiting each to both buy a few things and offload some of the crap hanging around in his inventory. XD At Kim’s, he bought a black bean (I couldn’t remember at the time if they had those at home or not – turns out yes, but it WAS only the one) and fifteen lots each of flour, sugar, red meat, and white meat (though in my game it was labeled as “beef” and “chicken” – I’m pretty sure that’s Brazen Lotus’s work), before selling her a bunch of the produce in his inventory – basil, parsley, sage, bell peppers, a small lettuce, some small pumpkins and watermelons, and a spare vitality fertilizer. Over at Agatha’s, he picked up a bunch of animal treats (party, fishy protein, healthy, pumpkin, and chocolatey) before selling her loads of flowers. So he may have spent some money, but he certainly got all of it back! I was ready then to try and get him back in the bar for his drink already –

Except. Well. When I played this particular day, it happened to be kind of stormy outside, and THIS is the moment when it started thundering and lightning in earnest outside, and I realized that I had to save where I was and shut off the computer. sigh I spent roughly the next twenty, thirty minutes playing games on my iPad and wondering if, when I loaded up the save again, the Fair would even still be there –